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- Spend a week up a mountain learning to ski
- Visit Karoline's place in Moravia
Hold a conversation in Czech (only)
- Drink 500ml of each of the following beers:
Pilsner
Staroprammen
- Budvar
- Velke Popovice
- U Fleku
Gambrinus
Krusovice
Respond to at least one GOARN request (WHO and MSF are
also acceptable)
Travel across the Atlantic
Return to South America
- Read a book to, or with, an impressionably aged child
- Participate in one NanoWriMo Challenge and come within at least 10,000 words of the goal length
Have my nose pierced
- Have my next tattoo drawn
Purchase the perfect jeans (x 2 pairs)
- Attend a spin class 3 times a week for 8 consecutive weeks
- Bake Viv's cheesecake
Make David's casserole
Make David's Chicken Cashew-nut Stirfry
Invite 4 people who don't know one another too well to dinner
- Ride from Vienna to Venice on a motorbike (pillion acceptable, those less desirable)
- Attend a book group for at least two books
- Go on a choir weekend (learn and perform difficult piece in two/three days)
- Visit Madame Tussaud's (in London)
- Take an architecture appreciation course
Join an all-girl group and sing a solo
Publish in a scientific journal (top two authors)
Cook a duck or other 'waterfowl'.
Locate the Al-Timimi's from Doha Veterinary Practise
Have a pedicure
Maintain a Brazilian (ouch) for three months.
Find a trustworthy Czech hairdresser
- Treat my inner-6-year-old twice a week (at least)
- Do the liver-cleansing diet properly (12 weeks)
- Don't eat out for one month
Find a flat and flatmate
- Purchase one Joseph sweater
- Purchase one of the following pairs of
designer shoes (they MUST also be COMFORTABLE, and be able to be worn with 4
different outfits and 2 types of occasion): Jimmy Choos, Manolo Blahniks,
Christian Louboutin (Ebay or 2nd hand are acceptable)
- Send 5 books to the booksphere and track them.
- Go hanggliding
- Read 10 'classic' books (from 1001 Books to Read before you Die)
Moll Flanders
Everything is illuminated
Madam Bovary
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance
Catch-22
Odysseus
On the Road
- Run (non-stop!) for 5kms outside (preferably in a street race thingy)
- Send Christmas Cards on time
Make a collage/mural out of street lights on my wall
Buy a bed, build it, and sleep soundly in it
Go to Africa
Host an 'event' (classified as and when)
Organise a 30th Birthday Party
Wear a costume
- Sing on stage
- Buy a painting that evokes memories of Prague (cannot involve queues!)
Learn a god-damned card game that stays in my memory (other than fish/snap)
See sunrise. Be sober. Have woken for it. Excludes months Nov-Mar
- Take a walk and flip coins at each intersection
Win something
- Draft a will
- Take a roadtrip
Go to Italy already
- Sea Kayak around Abel Tasman Park (NZ)
Get plants
Take a train to another Eastern European Destination (accession countries are acceptable) alone preferably.
- Get UK to give me a provisional motorcyclists license and simultaneously get a 'card' license.
- Go SCUBA diving again - at least two dives lasting 30mins each.
Go to a dentist. *sigh*
- Do a Czech Wine Trail. And live to tell the tale
- Make an 'outbreak emergency kit'.
- Go to bed prior to 11pm every night (inc weekends) for four consecutive weeks.
- Marvel over lack of tiredness
- Dine at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant (or Nobu)- preferably for free.
Bet on the nags
- Do something for charity (applying and getting a 'red card' will count)
- Walk along the Champs Elysee
- Do 100 sit ups in a row
- Do 50 pressups (arms in tight)
- Make branston pickle (or nearest substitute)
- Cook something 'new' and 'adventurous' at least once a month
Find a mentor
Be a mentor
Learn what mentoring is all about
Meet an online person in real life
Resist the flirt. Once. Just one night. It's okay if people don't immediately succumb to my natural charm. Really it is.
Spend time at a spa (spa towns in the CR don't count)
- Send a care package to someone
Get a Tata Bojs CD
- Take a French/German/Dutch course and SPEAK THE DAMNED LANGUAGE WHEN I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY EVEN THOUGH IT MAKES ME SOUND
LIKE AN IDIOT!
- Order new contact lenses.
Make a list of things I take with me when I pack for different occasions
- Eat lobster. Prepared by someone else.
Back up the blog
Put everything onto an external hard drive
- Find a DDR mat and console and 'dance, I say dance!'�
- Go to the beach and lie on the warm sand. For an hour. (with sunscreen on, natch)
- Take and complete a course in either: Tango, Salsa or Flamenco
- Join the Municipal Library of Prague
- Move to another country
Go to a live concert of a band I actually like
- Pay off debts (student loan excl.)
Send thank you cards for every gift I receive (other than the gift of happiness, blah blah blah).
- Get an agent (literary or theatre)
- Go to a sports bar without cringing, by personal choice
- Ride a rollercoaster
- Hold a snake
Spend a day wandering around a museum (not art gallery!)
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Stop being excited for me... |
Monday, 11 September 2006 |
...the thing that was almost beginning has suffered a diabolical twist. One that involves "Africa" and "thinking about things".
Which means, since Jo is still in town, that "the thing that wasn't" wasn't with him.
Sufficiently oblique for the NZ readers? (Hi, btw, you silent lurkers you!)
Meanwhile: Dad goes for his op at Tues 0400 CEST, Tues 0300 BST, Tues 1200 AUST and Tues 1400 NZT.
I trust you'll set your alarms, to wake up and cross everything (yes, including eyes) prior to drifting back off to sleep.
Those of you in Europe are expected to have as sleepless a night as I will have.
We've been told it'll take 5 hours. Then he'll be dopey in teh recovery room (no wonder they didn't want me to come back to Australia: they knew I'd hit dad up for a whopping great big loan while he was least capable of laughing hysterically) for a few hours. |
posted by Nomes @ Monday, September 11, 2006 |
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Hi Nomes
Hope all goes well tonight for your Dad. I'll be thinking of you and him later (although I'm really sorry but I cant promise that I will set my alarm!!) Was up at 4:30 am yesterday and 6am today!!! Although I cant really complain since I just arrived back from Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) yesterday. Cant keep my eyes open here at work today though! I shoulda taken today off.
Hols were great...lots of sun, plenty of chilling out/relaxing time and lots of good food etc. Only downside was the heatrash I got on the last day on my arms, sides of my stomach and backs of my legs!
Will be thinking of you, your Dad, Mum, Bro and everyone else having a sleepless night/restless day tonight/tomorrow Hels xxx
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Got my fingers crossed for you and your Dad, Nomes. I hear that wearing lucky headbands does wonders...
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Oblique? Yes. Please explain via email (powerpoint etc) - would love to know more ;) mx
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Hi Nomes
Hope all goes well tonight for your Dad. I'll be thinking of you and him later (although I'm really sorry but I cant promise that I will set my alarm!!) Was up at 4:30 am yesterday and 6am today!!! Although I cant really complain since I just arrived back from Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) yesterday. Cant keep my eyes open here at work today though! I shoulda taken today off.
Hols were great...lots of sun, plenty of chilling out/relaxing time and lots of good food etc. Only downside was the heatrash I got on the last day on my arms, sides of my stomach and backs of my legs!
Will be thinking of you, your Dad, Mum, Bro and everyone else having a sleepless night/restless day tonight/tomorrow
Hels
xxx